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Cabangan, Zambales

Actuarial Department Summer Outing 2014

By Danica Eliana Ferino

June 14^th, 2014

a break in tradition

Most of Actuarial Department’s summer outing were done in private resorts with small pools, booming videoke, scrumptious food and lots of liquor. And then, this time, the planning committee announced that it’s going to be on a beach. Yay! But then I remembered I’m really, really afraid of the ocean. Have you ever thought of it as an enormous, shapeless monster with an insatiable desire to eat the living lights out of us, doom us in eternal darkness of its belly? Yup, I am scared.

We arrived in Club Monet at night. I remember there was a full moon. And the waves were so loud as they smashed at the beach. I always thought it was always windy on the beach. It wasn’t. It was humid. JM, Ace, Des, Kate, Jenneth and I decided to stay out on the beach that night. While the others were sleeping in their rooms or drinking, we were out there having some chit-chat and midnight jamming. And though I was enjoying myself, I was at that time trying real hard to suppress my irrational fear that some evil underwater monster would show up, crawl its way to us and drag us to the sea. Thankfully, I survived the night without going crazy.

And when morning came, everything scary turned into an amazing blue. It was beautiful.

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Activities not suitable for the beach

After eating breakfast, we headed straight not to the beach, but to our room. It was scorching hot outside! Few dared brave the blistering sands to take a swim, but not us. KC volunteered to braid our hair. Who’d pass that up?

Pasta for lunch at the beach? Yes, please. We’re weird like that.

The better part of the day was spent ignoring the beach.

These were the ones who crossed the blazing, hot sands. Only a few ventured far out in the sea.

mandatory silhouette shots

I was waiting for the sunset the whole day. We managed to get a few decent shots before the sun completely hid behind the clouds.

While that sunset is going on, we were also having some team building activities. I was doing my best to stay out of it as much as possible. Not sporty, really.

beach bonfire

I thought bonfires are really awesome events. But we didn’t expect it to be so hot. The humid weather certainly didn’t help. After a while of complaining, we eventually gave up on having any bonfire activities.

the morning after

There were five of us who brought DSLRs. Only KC and I had the most number of shots. The other two were playing, while our boss is doing I don’t know.

KC has a telephoto lens. I tried using it but it felt like shooting wildlife photography and it was heavy. She got some awesome frisbee action shots with it. Here’s a few I managed with my lens.